海上集装箱运输中轴辐式航线结构的经济性分析

本文通过对海上集装箱运输中轴辐式航线结构与直达航线结构的运输成本与密度经济和范围经济指标的比较分析,说明:增加密度经济效应是轴辐式航线结构采用的动因,存在范围经济是其采用的条件.同时.对轴辐式航线结构经济性的影响因素以及提高途径进行了分析,还对当前海上集装箱运输中轴辐式航线结构越来越广泛采用的原因进行了解释.

Analysis on the Economical Advantages of Hub-and-Spoke Route Structure in Maritime Container Transportation

This paper has made a comparative analysis on the transport costs and the economies of density/scope index between the Hub-and-Spoke and the Fully Connected route structure in maritime container transportation,illustrates that the stimulation for adopting Hub-and-Spoke route structures is to exploit the economies of density effect in the maritime container transportation and the condition for adopting it is there exists the economies of scope.Consequently,has analysed the relative factors affecting the economy that the Hub-and-Spoke route structure can realize and suggested the principal ways to utilize it efficiently.This paper also explained the reasons for the more and more wider adopting of Hub-and-Spoke route structures in maritime container transportation.